The ALA will select up to 10 award recipients, and each winner will receive a $5,000 cash award, a plaque, and a travel stipend to attend the I Love My Librarian Award ceremony and reception in New York City on Dec. 4 hosted by the award sponsor, the Carnegie Corporation of New York. Since the award was established in 2008, library users nationwide have shared more than 18,000 nominations detailing how librarians have used their expertise to connect them to information, educational opportunities and critical technology to help improve the quality of their lives.

Last year's award winners included an academic librarian who preserves LGBTQ history, a public librarian who helps economically disadvantaged families connect with social services and a school librarian who inspires a love of reading in students who are new to the United States or speak English as a second language.

It happens more often than you think: a patron comes into the library asking for a book they can't remember, "you know, that one with the red cover...a W in the title?" And librarians, it turns out, are remarkably good at finding these forgotten books. Atlas Obscura, profiles this "crack squad of librarians" who track such requests down. "The first case was cracked in just a few minutes, courtesy of a remote staffer who recognized the plot of Imbolo Mbue’s 2017 Behold theDreamers. The room filled with a smattering of applause and enthusiastic dinging of the hotel bell. Someone made a hash mark on the dry-erase board."

Last week we questioned how librarians would respond to patrons wanting to use the library's 3D printer to make guns. Turns out it's not an abstract question. "A recent request from a patron of Millburn (N.J.) Free Public Library (MFPL) was a first for the library—and it left the reference librarian unnerved," reports American Libraries. "The patron wanted to use the facility’s 3D printer to create a part for an AR-15 rifle."The column goes on to detail the ALA's policy recommendations for 3D printers.

Over at Vox, Aja Romano blasts Twitter's decision. "In effect, Twitter is at a moral crossroads—and choosing the wrong path.The choice to allow Jones and his rhetoric to remain active on the platform suggests that there is no point at which a situation will become morally reprehensible enough for the company to take a stand."

JSTOR Daily has an interesting post on how librarianship was once considered too dangerous for Victorian women. "One speaker at the American Library Association’s 1910 conference claimed he knew fifty librarians who had become incapacitated by the work," the post notes. By the 1920s, however, "the dangers of library work disappeared from public discussion as increasing numbers of middle-class women proved their competence."

Remember during the net neutrality debate how FCC officials said the agency's comment process was the target of a DDOS attack? An Inspector General report confirms that was a lie. Turns out, encouraged by HBO's John Oliver, a lot of people were just trying to post comments.

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